The Game has been co-produced by 63 children and teenager age 7-15, 3 city administration departments including the city owned waste cleaning corp and 3 non-profit youth organizations in 6 agile development month.
Frustrated with the situation, young citizens decided to found a new agency, supporting the local waste cleaners in their effort to recycle the masses of ever growing waste. And the Smart Waste Agency, pronounced “Sway”, was born…
Equipped with Smart Hands-on Multi-Tools the SWA found innovative ways to recycle the waste monster masses efficiently.
Yet, as much as it greatly helped to recycle and become way smarter with waste, the waste kept coming back in endless streams.
The Wastefulness of people and industries did not disappear.
Was it enough to just become smarter?
Or is it time, to become wiser, too?
A group of SWA Agents decided to go on just another quest, to learn more about how to re-join the Great Circular – a system, that has been nurturing life for millions of years..
And what better ways we could explore, than within the landscapes our food systems.
Food connects us all – beyond borders, cultures and species in our one shared living home: Planet Earth.
Finding ways to heal our relationship with food systems, we can all participate in – as we do so anyway, every day.
With the potential of doing it more consciously, more mindful with the wasteful, we embark on yet another expedition quest…
the end
and beginning of a story
The story of the Smart Waste Agency can be played as a tabletop- and cardgame.
It’s a coopetive strategy and action game bundled with educational bonus material to deepen the understanding of waste types, recycling methods and how we can contribute to smarter ways of handling the waste.
The story of wanting to become more conscious and wise, learning from “The Great Circular” and actively heal our relationship with food systems through concrete everyday action quests.
This story will be told in an upcoming coop gamedesign and story creation expedition.
The live sketching platform can be surfed here
SWA, die Smart Waste Agency by Smart Waste Agency Coop, Kassel, Germany, EU is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
THE-SWAG.eu is a fresh, independent branch for the EU expansion of the German version and began on January 13th 2025
FSYS – the Food System Game is in concept scouting & sketching and up for development in Q3 2025